Jon Favreau Is Making a Star Wars Series

Is one Star Wars movie a year for the foreseeable future not enough for you? Of course not, which is why Disney just announced they’ll be making a new Star Wars series and named Jon Favreau the executive producer and writer.

StarWars.com announced that Favreau would be helming a new series for Disney’s new direct-to-consumer platform, and Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy said the project will “allow Jon the chance to work with a diverse group of writers and directors and give Lucasfilm the opportunity to build a robust talent base.”

The new generation of Star Wars films have been pretty great, and do a better job than most blockbusters on racial and gender diversity on screen. But they’ve still all been made by white, cis men, and many fans of both Star Wars and movies in general have been arguing that it’d be cool if literally anyone but a white, cis guy could be a part of production. Favreau is not directing, so that still leaves things open for an actually diverse group of people to be involved, and we certainly hope Favreau will take that opportunity. But anyway, Happy International Women’s Day!